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President Ronald Reagan met with Afghani guerrilla fighters promising money and weapons to kill Russian (Soviet) troops.
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Editorial: “If you believe that, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you”

July 12, 2020 fwstaff
By Fighting Words Staff George C. Parker (1860-1936) became famous in New York City as the great con-man who repeatedly sold the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and Madison Square Garden to gullible victims. […]
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July 4 Demonstrations Held in Solidarity with Indigenous and Black Lives

July 12, 2020 fwstaff
  By Detroit Fighting Words Staff These photographs were taken on Saturday, July 4, 2020, in downtown Detroit. There were two rallies in support of Indigenous and Black lives. One action began at Grand Circus […]
FCA Warren Truck plant workers returned to work amid COVID-19 pandemic
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COVID-19 Infection Rates Surge While Millions Are Forced Back to Work

July 7, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe There were more than 55,000 new COVID-19 cases reported in the United States on July 2. These figures represent a pattern of a rapid escalation of people being sickened by the potentially […]
Joyce Sole speaks Black Lives Matter Across 8 Mile
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Black Lives Matter Across 8 Mile Challenges Racial Profiling

July 6, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff The Black Lives Matter Across 8 Mile march, car caravan and rally took place on Sat. June 27, 2020. This event featured activists directly impacted by police brutality and murder. […]
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CWL COVID-19 program

June 30, 2020 fwstaff
  By the Communist Workers League Why a transitional program specifically for the COVID-19 crisis? Normally a socialist program is a more or less general and permanent outline of how an organization aims at initiating […]
Detroit Moratorium NOW! Coalition banner at daily demonstrations outside police headquarters downtown
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Detroit Holds Daily Demonstrations to Denounce Police Brutality and Racism

June 30, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff Since May 29, thousands of people in Detroit and surrounding suburbs have held demonstrations in solidarity with Black Lives Matter and the overall struggle against racism. Detroit officials responded to […]
Power to the People Mural in Downtown Detroit
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Detroit Juneteenth Marked by Anti-racist Demonstrations and New Street Mural

June 30, 2020 fwstaff
By Detroit Fighting Words Staff A “Power to the People” street mural was unveiled on June 19 (Juneteenth) along Woodward Avenue between Congress and Larned in downtown Detroit. The project was developed by local African […]
African American photo and graphic commemorating Juneteenth
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Commemorating Juneteenth: The Continuing Unresolved Issues from the Civil War and the Thirteenth Amendment

June 24, 2020 fwstaff
Note: The following is the text of a speech delivered on June 19, 2010 on the 145th anniversary of Juneteenth. This address is being republished in honor of the 155th commemoration of Juneteenth in light […]
Atlanta Wendy's turned into memorial for Rayshard Brooks gunned down by white cop
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Ballots, Bullets and the African American Struggle in Georgia

June 22, 2020 fwstaff
By Abayomi Azikiwe “This is why I say it’s the ballot or the bullet. It’s liberty or it’s death. It’s freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody. America today finds herself in a unique situation. […]
More than half of Michigan juvenile lifers still wait for resentencing
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Juvenile Lifers Stricken With COVID-19 in Michigan Prisons

June 18, 2020 fwstaff
The following is an abridged version of the original article. By Efrén Paredes, Jr As Michigan leads the nation in the chilling number of COVID-19 deaths occurring inside its prison, 196 incarcerated people sentenced to […]